Maro, 8 skateboards inside an old concrete fountain on January 31, 2009 in Kabul, Afghanistan. After decades of war many Afghan youth badly need an option for recreation. With a lack of city parks available expert skateboarder Oliver Percovich from Melbourne, Australia is attempting to open the country's first skateboarding school called Skateistan this spring. The Skateistan project is growing in popularity and now has the support of Afghan authorities with the German Foreign Ministry donating 70,000 USD. (Paula Bronstein/AFP/Getty Images)

It's hoped that street children who become used to the structure and routine of attending classes at the Skateistan park will go on to enroll in school, operations manager Brandon Gomez told the Phnom Penh Post.